The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-12-14
The Message.


In to-days paper we present the
message of President Cleveland.
No Message ever written by any
President has been so eagerly.
sought after, and so universally en-
dOrscd by the people of all parties.
Even the most bitter partisan pa
rvrs, while adversely criticising it,
praise the President.
It has startled James G. Blaine,
from his lair in Europe, and he
has issued a counter message, but
at the same time he condemns the
President, he. admits the truth of
Mr. CIeveland's position.
1t is a manly paper, by a cour-
ageous President, and while he dis
cuSses Rqucstion that is unpopular
with politicians and demagogues, 1t
is popular with; tho masses.
1t shows that he is honest, and is
willing to do his duty, and to fear
lessly enforce the law as he finds it.
He places the responsibility of the
increasing surplus in the Treasury,
whore it belongs, upon Congress.
and should they now fail to relieve
the people and reduce the surplus,
to avoid a financial crisis in this
country, then Congress alone will
be to blame.
While he urges the reduction of
the tariff. still he wants it done in a
way that will work no kardships to
any one.
He says: "In a reimbursement of
Tie tariff the interests of American
labor engaged in manufacture
shall be carefully considered as well
a. the preservation of our manu-
factures," and in the Same para
graph he says that cit may be called
protection or by any other name,
but relief from the hardships and
dangers of our present tariff laws
should be devised with especial
precaution against importing the
existence of our manufacturing in
terests." In another paragraph he
says that "all will acknowledge the
force of an argument which involves
the welfare and liberal compensa-
ton of our laboring people" and be
adds that our labor, aas it lies at the
foundation of our development and
progress, is entitled, without af-
fectation or hypocrisy, to the ut
most regard" and that ".he st n :
ard of our laborers' life should not
be measured by that of any other
country less favored, and they are
entitled to their full share of all our
advantages" Inanotherparagraph
he says that ''the reduction of taxa
ton demanded should be so meas
nred as not to necessitate or justify
either the loss of employment by
the workingman nor the lessening
of his wages" and in the closing
paragraph on the subject he says
that "theso things can and should
be done with safety to all our indus
tries. without danger to the oppor-
tunity for remunerative labor, which
our wOrkingmen need, and with bon
oft to them and all our people. by
cheapening their means of subsis-
tence and increasing the measure of
their comforts =
Yet in the face of these dcclara-
tiOns, the charge is made by Repub-
lican politicians, tricksters and dem
agogues, that the President is a free
trader, and the Democratic party is
a party of free traders. They do
this to scare the ignorant, but their
charge will fall fiat as the matter is
discussed.
The idea of free trade, in a country
like this, is an absurdity. No party
advocates free trade, and free trade
will never be placed upon the people
of this country.
The message has our fullest en-
dorsement, and the people endorse
it al over this land.
The ReDubIicans look unon ey-or,-